Media Studies A-Level
Hyperreality
What Hyperreality means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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A condition in which the simulated version of reality feels more real, more vivid or more satisfying than any actual experience, so audiences lose the ability to tell the copy from the original.
The condition belonging to Baudrillard's wider theory in which signs lose their connection to a stable referent.
Topics that use Hyperreality
Related terms
- Representation
- Sign and referent
- Simulation
- Audience response to constructed versions
- Baudrillard and postmodernism
- Media saturation
- Simulacra
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